They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names. And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their... Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Page 47by Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
| England - 1823 - 782 pages
...religion, The Power, the Beaut;/, and the Majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or finy mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ,• all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason ! Bat still the heart doth need a language, still... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 246 pages
...intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and tne majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountains,...spring, Or chasms and .wat'ry depths; all these have vanish'd, They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still... | |
| Scotland - 1823 - 858 pages
...religion, The .Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and •watry depths; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1828 - 444 pages
...religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still... | |
| Walter Scott - 1829 - 388 pages
...over human events. But Mannering was a youthful lover, and might perhaps be influenced by the feelings so exquisitely expressed by a modern poet: " For fable...spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths — all these have vanish'd ; They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still... | |
| Walter Scott - 1829 - 362 pages
...the feelings so exquisitely expressed by a modern poet: " For fable is Love's world, his home, liis birth-place : Delightedly dwells he 'mong fays, and...forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wa fry depths — all these have vanish'd ; They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...old religion. The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, That had her haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanish'H. They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still... | |
| 1835 - 102 pages
...when driven by a merciless causation from all its ancient reliances and " coins of vantage :" — " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...Or chasms, and wat'ry depths ; — all these have vanish'd, They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language." Reason... | |
| Alexander Walker - Aesthetics - 1836 - 528 pages
...arts can have being without it. Schiller has well expressed this truth in the following lines : — " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths, — all these have vanish'd ; They live no longer in the faith of reason ; But still... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1836 - 496 pages
...religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain , Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanish'd. They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still... | |
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